Male Sedlishche

Male (Little) Sedlishche, or Male Selyshche - at the end of the 19th century the village of the Vyrov volost, Rivne district, Volyn province as part of the Russian Empire. Near the village in 1851, the Jewish agricultural colony was founded.

The village in 1903 was again open for the placement of Jews, in the exception of the “Temporary Rules” of 1882.
According to the census of 1897, there are 628 residents total, of which 598 Jews.

According to the Jewish Colonization Society, in 1898, on 535 acres of land were 348 people of the indigenous Jewish population.
Agriculture - secondary affair; most Jews went in the summer in Rivne for carpentry.

In 1913, Jews owned all 12 shops (10 grocery and 2 iron goods). The Jew Ovshey Shapiro owned a glass factory, on which 152 people worked.

During World War II, in 1941, Male Sedlishche came under Soviet occupation, but was soon taken over by the Germans. At that time, there were ca. 800 Jews living in the village.

The Nazi occupation authorities adopted a number of regulations targeting the Jewish community. Jews were ordered to surrender gold and valuables to the occupier. They were not allowed to leave the village and forced to perform hard labour. They were also routinely robbed by the Ukrainian police collaborating with the Nazis.

On 26 August 1942, the Germans murdered ca. 500 Jews, including the Jewish residents of Male Sedlishche, in the vicinity of Kostopol. Twenty people managed to flee the execution site.

The village is present on the map of 1941; after the war, it probably ceased to exist.

Jewish colony Maloye Sedlishche on the two -verst map of Ukraine 1930	Maloye Sedlishche in the 1913 reference book

Rivne district, Rivne region

Sources:

- Jewish encyclopedia of Brockhaus & Efron;

- The All South-Western Territory: reference and address book of the Kyiv, Podolsk and Volyn provinces. Printing house L.M. Fish and P.E. Wolfson, 1913;

- The volost's and the most important settlements of European Russia. Edition of the Central Statistical Committee. The provinces of Little Russia and Southwest. St. Petersburg, 1885;

- A.I. Kruglov, "Maloye Selishcha", [in:] I.Altman (ed.), Holokost na tieritorii SSSR, Moscow 2009

Rivne region - list of settlements and location of objects

Male Sedlishche, 2022